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Drawing on his reading of Gregory Bateson and Jacques Derrida, Michael White became interested in the idea that the meaning we make of any experience comes from contrasting it with some other experience or set of experiences. No experience has meaning independent of other experiences. We make meaning through operations in which we say (or…
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[W]e may observe that the social sciences assume a doubly subordinate position, both under the hierarchy which is tending more and more to predominate, that of the natural sciences, and under the old hierarchy, today threatened by the rise in natural sciences and scientific values on the cultural stock exchange. Which explains why these disciplines…
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matthen: Draw some random points on a piece of paper and join them up to make a random polygon. Find all the midpoints and connecting them up to give a new shape, and repeat. The resulting shape will get smaller and smaller, and will tend towards an ellipse! [code] [more]
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Tresset robot artist: Artist engineers robots to make art and save his own sanity. – Slate Magazine
Tresset robot artist: Artist engineers robots to make art and save his own sanity. – Slate Magazine will be reading this later. it’s gotten some traction.
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But even these people, maybe *especially* these people, knew enough about technology not to trust it. When the Nerds Go Marching In – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
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All these potential Edward Fords are evoked every time the script is read, like cinematic Schrödinger’s cats. But the instant any one director fixes it on film, the superpositioned versions will collapse and be gone forever. Michael Shannon, Terry Zwigoff, and the greatest unproduced screenplay: Edward Ford by Lem Dobbs. – Slate Magazine
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Edward Ford is one of the few works of art that tackles real, bone-deep, four-in-the-morning terrors. You might not have the talent you need. Success may no longer be available to you. Time will bury everything you care about. These are not things you want whispered in your ear on date night, and they don’t…
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prostheticknowledge: HOLO Magazine Kickstarter project to fund publishing of premium-quality Arts + Tech magazine, by the people behind the excellent Creative Applications site: HOLO is a new magazine that explores the convergence of art, science and technology, brought to you by the team at CreativeApplications.Net (CAN). An extension to one of the most authoritative art…
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“Game day” was October 21. The election was still 17 days away, and this was a live action role playing (LARPing!) exercise that the campaign’s chief technology officer, Harper Reed, was inflicting on his team. “We worked through every possible disaster situation,” Reed said. “We did three actual all-day sessions of destroying everything we had…
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shoomlah: Atrus falling through the fissure, based loosely on the grossly-vectorized image of the Falling Man from the MYST box art. I’ve been dying to draw this for ages.